October sends the leaves down the Medomak past the village falls, and half of them end up in somebody's yard. Sevon's Lawn Care runs the season end to end — mowing and trimming all summer, edges kept sharp, then the fall cleanup that hauls the whole year away. There's a particular pleasure in the last cut, when the grass finally slows and a lawn holds its shape right up to the first snow. Frost reaches the low ground along the river before it reaches the rest of town, and the schedule follows it downhill. Everything put to bed in Waldoboro, ready to come back green.